Through the Times
Disclaimer:
Nanatsu no Taizai is owned by Nakaba Suzuki and Studio Deen
Doctor Strange (2016 MCU film) is owned by Marvel Studios and Walt Disney Pictures
Many thanks to those who read and reviewed this fic. I really appreciated it and this gave me inspiration to work on the next chapter and here, the story advances as Meliodas goes out to do another errand and this time he is escorted by another incarnation of Elizabeth, only this time in the modern-day Scotland.
Read on as a HEART-BREAKING situation is about to take place, and this would affect Meliodas in such a way…
Well then, read on and enjoy!
Ch. 11: Higeki-tekina hi
Elizabeth then asked the Goblin who made the accusation, and the Goblin is becoming more unhinged, but then he spotted Loki among the crowd watching, and there he pointed at him, and Elizabeth recognized Loki through the newspapers she read and realized that the Norse God has baited the Goblin into confronting Meliodas, and there she is about to tell the Goblin that he has been tricked, but the Goblin began to act erratic and shoved her aside, and grabbed Meliodas by his collar.
Seeing what the Goblin did, Meliodas was angered and began to punch the Goblin back, but his armor somewhat protected him and he grabbed his target by his wrist as he motions the glider to take them upwards, and there the Goblin tells Meliodas that he has sealed his fate for insulting him by calling him a William Dafoe rip-off, and he will die for that, though Meliodas reiterated that he never said that as he never seen him before.
"I told you I don't know anything about this guy!"
"Ha! Too late!"
"What?"
"You will pay the price for insulting me!"
"You're crazy!"
"You are even crazier! Calling me Willem Dafoe! That is the ultimate insult to me!"
"I said I didn't…"
"Silence!"
Unconvinced, the Goblin then flew via the glider and went on a fast speed and flew around the area before throwing him towards a small shop, where he crashed against a glassed stall, and this wounded Meliodas to a degree but he got up, pissed off and now he is going to pay the Goblin back for something he did not do.
The action that the Goblin did to Meliodas caused passerby to get scared and started to scamper away, while others attempted to help Meliodas, concerned for his well-being though he assured to them that he is okay as he gets up, but then the crowd saw who is approaching.
"Look!"
"It's him!"
"No way!"
"The Green Goblin!"
"What's he doing here!"
"Damn! He's going to thrash Glasgow!"
"Look out!"
"He's going to attack!"
The Goblin began to laugh hysterically as he took out a pumpkin-looking bomb and threw it at the area where Meliodas is standing, and though it struck him, the impact was sever that the explosion caused shrapnel to fly out, hitting other people which caused severe injuries and caused the scene to become an area of BLOODBATH.
Many people are screaming as some were killed and others were hurt.
"AAAIIIEEE!"
"GGGYYYAAHH!"
"AAARRGGGHHH!"
"EEEEKKKK!"
"AAAIIIEEE!"
"GGGYYYAAHH!"
"AAARRGGGHHH!"
"EEEEKKKK!"
As the smoke cleared, Meliodas stood there, looking like he is unharmed but his upper clothing was shredded and he looked very pissed at the carnage that the Goblin caused, as the green-armored villain approached his target, and expressed disbelief at seeing his target standing there and that Meliodas seemingly suffered no damage from the bomb being tossed to him, other than some bleeding on parts of his body.
A pissed-off Meliodas demanded to know why the Goblin would go so far just to target him over something he has no knowledge about, but the Goblin insisted that Meliodas insulted him by saying he looked like Willem Dafoe, which Meliodas reiterated that he doesn't know that person.
"I told you I don't know anything about this guy! Whoever told you about that really made a fool out of you!"
"Ha! You can't lie to me!"
"What?"
"You will pay the price for insulting me! And you will pay big time!"
"You're crazy!"
"You are even crazier! Calling me Willem Dafoe! That is the ultimate insult to me! I am better than him! I'm even more HANDSOME than him!"
"I said I didn't…"
"Silence! You must pay now!"
As the two began to battle, the scene shows that Loki is watching whole holding a bucket of popcorn, rather impressed that the snacks on Earth are quite good, though the seller demanded that he pay for the popcorn, which the Norse God of Lies and Mischief rebuked him.
"Yummy…I never thought that Midgard snacks are this good…"
"Hey!"
"…"
"Pay up!"
"What?"
"You just took 25 Scottish Dollars' worth of popcorn!"
"You dare demand payment from a god?"
"No money, no popcorn! Give me that!"
As the seller took back the bucket of popcorn and told Loki to either pay or forget the popcorn, a rather incensed Loki uses his magic and levitated the seller and threw him aside, sending him towards a large garbage bin as Loki took back the bucket of popcorn and resume watching the battle between Meliodas and the Green Goblin.
-x-
Meanwhile, Thor and Doctor Strange are hovering above as they search for Loki, worried that if he finds out that Meliodas is from another dimension he might target him for the Norse God's silly entertainment and the two heroes worked double time to find him before he finds Meliodas.
Soon they passed by a police car where a radio blared about an attack at the site where it is reported that the Green Goblin is battling what appeared to be a blond-haired boy, and Strange realized that it was Meliodas, and urged Thor to get to the site faster.
As Thor and Strange flew, the Thunder God asked why is Strange worried, and there Strange explained why, which both men realize that if Loki were to find out about this he might manipulate him to do Loki's bidding.
"Okay, this is bad."
"Indeed, Thor."
"That Loki might do something more foolish than what I could imagine…"
"We got to get there faster."
"Indeed, Doctor."
"We better get there as soon as possible."
"I'm right behind you."
"Thanks."
And the two heroes flew faster in order to reach the scene of the battle and stop the Goblin from inadvertently expose Meliodas' secret immortality.
Commuters and drivers saw the two heroes flew above them and wondered if the Avengers are here, seeing Thor but no one else is around and assume that Doctor Strange is a new recruit.
"Look!"
"It's Thor!"
"And who's that flying guy?"
"An Avenger?"
"It's Superman!"
"Idiot! Superman's DC…this is the MCU!"
"And Superman doesn't dressed like that! That's Dracula!"
"Moron! Dracula doesn't fly during the day!"
Ironically, some wondered where are European-born superheroes are at the moment, as the citizens are more leaning towards those who reside within the European Union, preferring the likes of Captain Britain over Captain America.
"Where's Captain America?"
"Are you dumb! This is the European Union! There's no way America would send the likes of him here!"
"We rather want to see Captain Britain!"
"Yeah! British is better!"
"Call Harry Potter!"
"Moron! He's a wizard! And he belonged to JK Rowling and Warner Brothers!"
"So?"
"Shut up, already!"
Soon the Scottish citizens heard from the news radio about the Green Goblin attacking and this made them wondering if they should welcome Spider-Man, seeing that he is based in America, but believe that Thor would be enough to deal with the Goblin.
"Let Thor handle that guy!"
"Can he…?"
"His hammer would knock him out!"
"Yeah, that would work!"
"Of course!"
"He's a thunder god!"
"He can beat that Goblin!"
"He's right!"
Opinion is divided as they made comparison as they believe that Thor is stronger than Spider-Man and felt that the Thunder God is more than enough mainly because of his Norse origins and that he is not from America.
"Thor vs. Spider-Man?"
"Thor is better!"
"How so?"
"He's got powers!"
"What about Spider-Man?"
"He can't fly!"
"He can jump!"
"Spider-Man couldn't summon lightning!"
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Back at the scene of the battle, the Goblin continue to torment Meliodas as he managed to evade Meliodas' reach, though the villain is bothered that his pumpkin grenades are not hurting his target and asked why Meliodas doesn't die, saying his death is enough to atone for the mockery he made to him, which made Meliodas more incensed.
He insisted that he doesn't know anything about Willem Dafoe but the Goblin maintain that Meliodas is guilty of that.
"I keep telling you…I don't know anything about this Willem Dafoe! Whoever told you about that really made a fool out of you! He tricked you good!"
"Ha! You can't lie to me! I know that you insulted me on purpose!"
"What?"
"You will pay the price for insulting me! And you will pay big time! Double time! Triple time!"
"You're crazy! You're really crazy!"
"You are even crazier! Calling me Willem Dafoe! That is the ultimate insult to me! I am better than him! I'm even more HANDSOME than him! I even have better SEX APPEAL than him!"
"I said I didn't…"
"Silence! You must pay now! Prepare to die!"
Elizabeth arrived and saw what is happening and uses her sorcery to disable the bombs to prevent the Goblin from causing more harm, and tells Meliodas to use this chance to take down the attacker.
"Meliodas!"
"Elizabeth!"
"Now's your chance!"
"Huh?"
"Take him down now!"
"Okay!"
"Hurry!"
"I'm on it!"
Angered, the Goblin swoops down and jumps off the Goblin Glider, and the vehicle rammed towards Elizabeth, its sharp spear stabbed her through her stomach and pinned her against a wall, and Meliodas stared in horror as he went towards Elizabeth and tries to get the glider off her, but Elizabeth breathed raggedly for several seconds before she expired.
Meliodas was slowly getting consumed by grief as the Goblin stood there and said that this is what happens if anyone tries to insult him, though Meliodas glared at him in response.
"Now you know!"
"…"
"This is what you're going to become!"
"…"
"Say your prayers, brat!"
"…"
"You're going to die!"
"…"
Loki just watch the scene while he grabbed another bucket of popcorn as he wondered what Meliodas would do next, curious to see if Meliodas would go all-out against a mortal garbed in a goblin-themed armor.
The popcorn seller came back and demanded that he pay, but Loki rebuked him before using his magic to send him back to the garbage bin.
"Hey!"
"…"
"Pay up!"
"What?"
"You just took 25 Scottish Dollars' worth of popcorn!"
"How vexing. You really dare to demand payment from a god?"
"You heard me! No money, no popcorn! Give me that!"
"Why you…get lost!"
As the popcorn seller is thrown back, Loki resumed his watching as he is curious to see what would happen next, not realizing that Thor and Doctor Strange are heading his way.
To Be Continued...
Hope you liked this chapter, though it ended in a tragedy…as Meliodas just witnessed another death involving Elizabeth…only this time at the hands of a mortal. This is a parallel showing of how someone got killed at the hands of the Green Goblin, and this time Spider-Man is not directly involved in any way…
Preview:
The Meliodas vs. the Green Goblin battle rages on.
Thor and Doctor Strange arrives…will they be able to calm Meliodas down…?
Someone shows up and threaten to complicate matters…
See you in 6-8 weeks (probably around mid- October or late November)…
Reviews are welcomed, but needed…